Intelligentsia Quotes

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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. — Eric Hoffer
People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of… — Thomas Sowell
We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should… — Vladimir Putin
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite — Ron Silver
Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia.… — John Waters
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. — George Orwell
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.… — Thomas Sowell
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common… — Thomas Sowell
The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,… — George Orwell
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. — Stanley Baldwin
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are… — C.S. Lewis
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of… — Noam Chomsky
I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called -… — P.G. Wodehouse
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the… — Hu Shih
We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed. — Heinrich Himmler
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any… — Leon Trotsky
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section… — Mao Zedong
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the… — Lance Morrow

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